EDUCATIONAL RENEWAL

EDUCATIONAL TRANSFORMATION: LEADING CHANGE

1. Leading changes and innovation

• Innovation: what does it mean?
• What drives change in schools?
• The change curve
• Contextualization matrix and success factors of change
• Teacher leadership: catalysts for change
• Theory of action: beliefs and values - Actions - Consequences

2. Leading people in change

• Leading or managing change
• Resistance to change
• Team structure
• Change's action plan: Kotter's method for leading change
• The 8 stages of change
• Evaluating the transformational impact

4. Transformational conversations

• Leadership conversations
• Engagement
• Transformative dialogue. Meaningful conversations
• Planning transformational conversations and managing resistance.

5. Coaching

• What is a coach?
• Coaching strategies

After attending this course you will be able to:

• Know how to integrate the culture of permanent improvement in your school.
• Identify the stages of a change process in your organization and how to manage the different moments.
• Learn how to create a team that drives change, promoting teacher leadership.
• Know how to support your team, to overcome resistances and concretize the action plan for educational transformation.
• Apply the Theory of Action, defining the educational values of your school, actions, and current and future results, to carry out the transformation.
• Incorporate transformational conversations in your work of leadership and school management.
• Know coaching techniques and transformational dialogue.
• Evaluate the impact of the transformation process on student's learning.

This course has a duration of 5 working days

Our course includes theoretical lessons conducted by experts with group work by the attendees, which allow them to acquire theoretical information and discuss with other professionals the possibilities of educational leadership.

We encourage collaborative work and relationships between professionals from different countries to ensure on the one hand personal enrichment and on the other hand the possibilities of contacts for new Erasmus Plus projects.

The programme of the course includes the possibility of social and cultural activities in the Costa Brava such as visits to Barcelona, Girona or Dali museum in Figueres.

Certificate of attendance including description of training content and time input

Europass mobility certificates – to be issued by the applicant’s NA

14/11/2023 (To be confirmed)

16/01/2023 (To be confirmed)

20/04/2023 (To be confirmed)

03/07/2023 (To be confirmed)

Europe Teachers Consultors will charge you 400 euros

If you have an Erasmus+ grant, this fee consists of 2 parts.

- Course fee: for a 5-days course 350 euro for tuition and materials.  This is covered with the course fee that you get with your grant: 70 euro per day.

- Organizational costs: each school / organization will receive per participant 350 euro for organizational costs, of which Europe Teachers will charge for this  course 50 euro per participant for administration and organizational costs (local organization for venue, rent of venue, visit of schools, costs for Europe Teachers administration, etc.)